Effectiveness of a rural sanitation programme on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and child malnutrition in Odisha, India: A cluster-randomised trial

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2014, Pages e645-e653

  Clasen, Thomas ^a,b   Boisson, Sophie ^b   Routray, Parimita ^b   Torondel, Belen ^b   Bell, Melissa ^b   Cumming, Oliver ^b   Ensink, Jeroen ^b   Freeman, Matthew ^a   Jenkins, Marion ^c   Odagiri, Mitsunori ^c   Ray, Subhajyoti ^d   Sinha, Antara ^b   Suar, Mrutyunjay ^e   Schmidt, Wolf Peter ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e KIIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DRINKING WATER; SOIL;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND WASHING; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SANITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTION; WATER QUALITY; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SOIL; TOILET FACILITIES;

EID: 84916886561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70307-9     Document Type: Article

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